I am having a hard time right now. I have been getting dizzy daily since my last OB appt. almost 5 weeks ago. Not a big deal but now it is getting worse. It used to be random and now since yesterday it is almost 24 hours a day. Just kidding I don't know if I am dizzy when I sleep :) nothing helps though. keeping hydrated, getting up slowly, I am not doing any spinning or anything crazy. I can just stand there and feel like I will fall over. Like I said only got this bad yesterday So I had a feeling to call my dr. today. Please don't think I am neglecting me or this baby. In reality my insurance has yet to go through (LONG story!) so I have not been able to schedule my 12 week appt. yet ( I am 13 weeks tomorrow) Yes my baby's health is important but I never had a concern for the baby until today. I never had a doubt there was a reason to race into the dr until today. I also started getting a weird numb sensation in the left side of my belly. Feels like your mouth feels after the dentist- tingly and numb. I also told the nurse that today. She said that is not normal. Nor is the extreme never ending dizziness. The dr isn't there today and next week is booked but the nurse is concerned and wants me in on Monday. yay! She says if anything gets worse go to the ER. Heaven help me, I can't afford another trip to the ER. But if I have to I most certainly will go!! I promise that. SO Monday I can finally hear the heartbeat!! So far I have only seen the heartbeat in an ultra sound 5 weeks ago. I am praying with all my heart there is a heartbeat. Any momma will tell you hearing the heartbeat for the first time is not only beautiful but gives you peace of mind- phew my baby is still there and ok!! So since I was only supposed to see the dr this week I will not be real behind when I see him. I am just concerned what my body is going through. I mean dizziness is normal.... to an extent... so why is it NOT going away and getting worse?? :( :( anyone wanna pray for me and little baby Romney?? thanks!! I will keep this updated when I find out anything!!

sigh

It's November. It's cold. Me+ cold+snow= bleh! I am such a baby. I love me some warm sunny SUMMER!! I am already daydreaming my life away about warmth, sun, swimming, sand, sun, sun and more sun. As I have mentioned before we are going to Hawaii in March. We were going to go in October- but when we were planning this months ago we knew I would probably still be sick and exhausted. So we figured when would be a good time to go... not within all the holidays. So we decided right after tax returns. I will still be good to fly and it will still be cooler here... perfect time to go. I got advice from friends but Daniel and I decided against all the good advice and thoughts and have chosen to bring the kids with us! We wouldn't want to be away from them for 9 (or more) days! Plus we would never want them to miss out on such an opportunity!! Our next huge vacation wont be for a few more years when we go to the Philippines which is where Daniel served his mission. I know we will have to plan around naps and kid's schedules. but who cares... we will be in Hawaii!!! So until then I will just keep my head up, keep my head warm and brave this quickly approaching Winter. :( but Winter does equal Thanksgiving and Christmas, snowmen, snow angels, hot chocolate, warm fuzzy socks, family get togethers and for that I am grateful, happy, peaceful and optimistic that it won't be so bad. :)

Makes me wonder

here is my gripe for the day:

So as I said a couple posts ago I have gone through 2 and a half prescriptions of Zofran for my nausea. (the first one that was half way full was actually left over from my pregnancy to Leighton. Yes they were expired. sue me. I was desperate) So I haven't quite got my insurance figured out yet. Lame I know, I am working on it.

Since I didn't have insurance, Walmart (uggggh) charged me $70 for EACH time I got Zofran. For GENERIC! well I hit ten weeks and I stopped getting sick. hooray! Good thing, I ran out of meds and didn't have money to refill. After I went to the Emergency Room couple weeks ago they gave me a prescription for under the tongue Zofran. what is this beautiful, magical medicine no one has told me about before?? This would have saved me so many pills that I threw up each time I took one. ANYWAY I started getting morning sickness back and needed meds. I called pharmacies for a price to get these 10 magical dissolving pills and I started calling ANYWHERE but Walmart. Rite Aid tells me for generic, ten whole pills it is 110 bucks. uh no. I call Smiths 23 bucks, getting better! I call Costco..... $11. BLESS YOU COSTCO!!!!

So Dan goes to pick up my meds and when the pharmacist tells Dan the total, Dan says "you know Walmart charges almost $80 bucks for these" the man sticks out his hand and says "welcome to Costco"

can you believe it?!

makes me wonder who else is getting ripped off on out of pocket prescriptions...

that's it for now. Just dissolved one under my tongue and have hope now for the rest of this morning sickness.... which should really be called random, any time of day sickness that can last hours. :) just sayin

So I just realized we find out the sex of the baby the week of Christmas!! How fun is that?? I will not be disappointed if it is a girl I promise that, but I have my heart set on a boy. I think it's time. We have a name picked out for a boy. I have many names for a girl but Dan doesn't want to hear them until we find out it's a girl. He has his mind made up it is a boy. Oh how I love girls though. I am having a hard time not knowing what this lil nugget is and not able to SHOP!! there are so many cute outfits for both. sigh. no matter what... I am happy to just have a baby... boy OR girl!!

Leighton is doing really well with her glasses even though they are a tad too big. They are the smallest anyone makes. They slip down a lot but I know for a fact they are helping. Sweet baby girl she is.

Ireland is doing really well. I will gladly tell you more about that when I finally finish the post I have been working on for her. I really should get on that. I think (and hope) it gives everyone a better understanding of her, why she is the way she is and why I act the way I do with her)

She needs to get into a preschool. Yes I teach preschool and yes I love teaching her but I think she needs to get it from other people and be around different kinds of kids and different atmosphere than just at home you know?

I finally got all my pics uploaded to my laptop so be prepared to be bombarded by photos!!

Ireland has ALWAYS had an obsession with shoes (same with her sister) but Ireland takes it waaaay past real shoes some times. LOL oh my goodness check this out! yes those are play dishes. ouch

one child is tired and WANTS a nap and one child is tired and DOESN'T want a nap. I will let you decide which is which:

karaoke at Grammie's house in the play room

this is when I was about 8 weeks along. Seems how I didn't have a flat tummy to begin with I am not completely sure what all is baby :) I do know you show faster with each kid though and I do know some of that is in fact baby :)

Leighton can't just eat food normally. She likes to use just her mouth sometimes. it's cute

painting one of her pumpkins

Leighton before glasses. look at all the bumps and bruises. I am happy to say since the glasses she hasn't run into ANYTHING!!

ready for dance

the things that entertain kids

more dance

this is a sincere, natural shot. its blurry as I was trying to hide and be sneaky. I love how they are best friends

another natural shot. they love their reflections in the oven door and they love being fairy princesses. Who wouldn't ? :)

hooray!

So a lot of people have wanted me to keep them updated on my (and daniel, my sister and cousins) progress with our 12 week Body For life Fitness Program. We all have different goals. You can read the post about that here . Anyway I will now tell how I have done. I got to week 2 and I had to slooooow down; because I kinda sorta got pregnant!! Insert 2.5 bottles of Zofran and a couple Phenergan (nausea meds) a trip to the ER with 2 bags of fluid to hydrate me, feeling like I took a sleeping pill daily for weeks. 5 weeks of daily puking, every smell makes me ill, seeing a heart beat in an ultrasound, having Ireland kiss my belly, giving daily thanks for this beautiful growing child in my belly, still working out when I can, being excited, exhausted, hormonal, anxious, etc. Man I love getting to talk about it instead of keeping it a secret!!

why does my font sizes keep changing? ha ha anyway it's driving me crazy.

SO here are answers to possible questions:

*due date: May 28th but the way I have kids it will be earlier.

*I am 10 weeks

*Yes it was 100% planned

*we have been planning since Lei was way tiny that we would try in NOV then we changed it to OCT then Daniel asked what's one more month? ha ha so we tried early and there you have it!

*yes we know they will be close in age; 23 months actually. It WAS planned that way. YES we know that's close. we love it!! We wanted Ireland and Leighton to be 18 months apart but we got shy of 21 months. it's not always our choice. It was ok and we are happy.

* if one more persons response to my pregnancy as: "again?!" I will take you off my friends list. not kidding. If you can't have a good response that is sincere and kind then please keep it to yourself k? thanks!

* we will find out what the baby is at 17 weeks through fetal fotos as a family. Then we will go in the next week to my dr and have the ultrasound to find how the baby is doing and growing. we never had good experiences with the finding out the sex through my dr's office ( I don't care for the lady that does it there otherwise I love the place)

* hooray!

cute huh???

So behind.

Why do I even have a blog? I swear I can't remember it is here half the time. I love to I just never remember. The only reason I do is because my sister asks me daily to blog. Well I am doing this on my own tonight. ( I am avoiding my treadmill hee hee)

So here are some updates on us (exciting I KNOW!)

Daniel still works from home and ALSO has a night job. He gets PAID to get BUFF!! woo woo. He, my sister and two brothers work at fed ex loading trucks. Oh did I already post about his new job?? oh well. Nothing else new with him... except his ever growing biceps! oww oww!! hottie I tell ya

As for me, well nothing new at the moment. Just trying to keep everything balanced in life and trying to be patient for Spring! We have a trip for Hawaii planned (I KNOW!!!!) and another trip to Moab and another somethin somethin planned around then too! :) :)

As far as Ireland... well I have a whole post on her in the works. It is extremely sensitive to me and I am trying my hardest to write it with honesty but not trying to sound snotty or braggy or whatever else. I sure love my goo bear Ireland. She is rockin at dance class! Her teacher is awesome and is impressed with Ireland's dancing skills. Ireland has never put up a fight to go and looks forward to it each time!

Ireland is at an extremely emotional stage right now and I find it hard most times to understand why she is crying over something that to me seems so silly and to her is just devastating. We are learning to not get mad and be patient and understanding of whatever she is going through. She is so sweet and such a good helper. She is just sensitive like her mama! We cry over everything and that isn't a bad thing with her because she is so tender hearted and just wants the world and everyone in it to be ok, safe and happy! She is beautiful and has great manners. She is smart and knows so many things and asks so many questions. Bright young lady she is!!

Leighton- my poor, sweet Leighton. If it isn't one thing it's another with her. Poor girl has always been sick, always catching everything, always getting hurt. Right now she is getting over Croup. Besides the barking cough (that mainly was just at night) you would never know by watching her. She plays and jabbers and runs around like "what? I am FINE guys!" she is on steroids and antibiotics (because on top of croup she also has some other bug) She already naturally has this adorable raspy voice so since she has had this sickness it magnifies her raspy-ness. SO cute! When we say prayers she repeats us and it is too precious! She LOVES scriptures!! I kid you not. I pull them out and she claps her hands and says "scriptures! scriptures!" but in a one year old way you know. She sits down and just.... listens. there aren't even pictures!! She loves to be read to that much!!!

Oh also Leighton needs glasses. temporary ones though. I have noticed her right eye randomly wanders and she goes cross eyed for no reason. It's called Amblyopia and is totally something we can fix. We take her to an opthamologist Monday for a THREE hour appt. they will give her glasses that blur her good eye which forces the bad eye to see correctly. Not sure how it works. Dan took her to the pediatrician and got the details, not me. It makes sense now why she is ALWAYS running in to things and falling in to things. She has been walking and running for months now and isn't clumsy so as sad as it is I am glad to know it's her eye sight so now we can fix it!

well all this is repeat info if we are friends on face book but this is easier for me to look back and find and read so I will always repeat things here. Anyway I am exhausted and don't make sense so... good night